Posts by Art & Antiques Magazine
Writ in Water
Before there was photography there was watercolor, a demanding medium that British artists mastered while documenting life and landscape at home and abroad. Featured Images: (Click to Enlarge) The most portable of paints created centuries of enduring views. Since the 18th century, watercolorists have packed up their brushes and worked near and far, recreating everything…
Read MoreBut Is It Human?
New finds in the caves of Spain raise the question of whether Neanderthals made art.
Read MorePiero della Francesca: A Formal Introduction
Piero della Francesca, who channeled mathematics into shapes and colors, gets his first one-man show in America.
Read MoreJet-Set Gems
Estate jewelry from the ’60s and ’70s is bold, colorful and experimental, just like the era that created it.
Read MoreBernini in Action
A revelatory show and a new book of historical detection help us take a fresh perspective on an old master – Bernini.
Read MoreTurkish Delights
In Istanbul, two unique private museums reflect the visions of the collectors who founded them.
Read MoreAmerican Beauties
The folk-art feeding frenzy may be over, but the best is holding its own, and collectors are making some intriguing discoveries.
Read MoreInterview: Michael Rush, Head of Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum
Michael Rush tells Ted Loos about his new position as head of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State, his old one at the ill-fated Rose Museum at Brandeis, and how he got to be a curator in the first place.
Read MoreForging a New Art
What happens when artists imitate their imitators? By Jonathon Keats In the first few months of 1963, the Mona Lisa was seen by nearly two million people in New York and Washington, D.C. Shipped to the United States on a diplomatic mission – escorted by the French culture minister and received by President John F.…
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